Chapter 891 Times Have Changed
The Song Army's two thousand infantry formation was like a circular ink disk, evenly distributed in the huge green ocean.
The ink disk is also dotted with bright red, and the bright red is dancing in the wind.
The crippled horses in the distance cut through the rolling waves of grass like a silver torrent and rushed towards the Song army.
The distance between the two sides is quickly closing.
Balihai did not intend to attack by force, and Guaizima was not used to attack by force.
When cavalry fights this defensive infantry formation, the most effective tactics are bloodletting.
Obviously, this kidnapping horse planned to attack back and forth several times first and drag the Song army into a state of exhaustion.
When the distance was approaching three hundred meters, Guaizima prepared to launch a wave of rapid attacks.
Under the impact of the enemy, they harassed the Song army with arrows, and then skillfully separated from the Song army at a distance of tens of meters and retreated in a roundabout way.
This classic tactic has proven successful time and time again.
This time, as usual, Balihai quickly entered charging distance with his men.
The war horses instantly began to charge. At that moment, it was like a torrent of collapse.
"fire!"
The officer of the Song Army's artillery battalion issued this order, and the flag began to wave.
The bronze cannon, which had already been filled in and had its fuses installed, was ignited under the fuse in the hands of the artillerymen.
boom……
More than twenty loud noises rose from the ground, as if the sky had exploded.
Then came out more than twenty iron cannons.
They streaked through the air, making a faint whistling sound, and rushed towards the crippled horse directly in front.
When the Kaizi horses charge, they are about five to ten meters apart from each other, and there is also a distance between them.
This is to fully ensure the maneuverability of the kidnapping horse when making detours.
The Song Army's iron artillery rushed into the Guaizima's charge team in an instant.
Some swept between the kidnappers and horses.
Some directly hit the kidnapping horse.
At that moment, the hit Guaizima was hit with such force that his body twisted violently and fell to the ground on the spot.
The cavalryman above fell down, and countless bones in his body were broken.
The war horse's head was hit, almost half of it collapsed, and it collapsed on the ground. On the spot, there was only air coming out but no air coming in.
What was even more unlucky was that some cavalrymen were hit, and their heads instantly exploded in half like a ripe watermelon.
The red and white ones stuck to the hot iron cannon, were immediately burnt to a crisp, splashed in the air, and then fell to the ground.
The cavalryman leaned toward the ground and fell to the ground dead.
These twenty dozen iron cannons were fired and killed five kidnappers on the spot.
But the impact is by no means as simple as five horses.
The charging sequence of the kidnapping horse is not straight line by line.
Although the other cannonballs rushed in from between the horses at the front, they bounced a bit after landing and continued to move forward.
When the cavalry horses behind them rushed up, the legs of some horses were directly hit. The horses tilted forward on the spot, and the cavalry above also fell forward. The bones in their bodies were twisted by the huge momentum and they vomited blood.
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What's more serious is that these sudden iron cannons caused serious disturbance to some of the war horses that were not hit, causing these war horses to suddenly slow down.
These horses that suddenly slowed down also affected the horses behind them.
If this level of influence continues, a total of fifty or sixty horses will be affected.
Those in the back had to bypass those in the front.
All this happened in just ten seconds.
Based on this time, the unaffected Guaizi Ma at the front has already entered within 200 meters.
If calculated based on the cavalry charge speed of 13 meters per second, it would take 15 seconds to cover a distance of 200 meters.
However, the kidnapping horse will not really rush forward, but will leave a distance of 20 meters to harass the enemy.
In other words, it is 180 meters, which is about 13 seconds.
At this time, if the heavy cavalry were charging head-on, it would be impossible for the Song army to cool down the gun barrel, or even without cooling it, and it would be impossible to refill it and fire another round.
But now we are being harassed by kidnappers and horses.
The kidnapping horse will be 20 meters away.
Therefore, there is plenty of time left for the artillerymen. They only need to protect themselves from being shot by the Jin army.
Of course, when the Guaizima came within 100 meters, the Song army launched a crossbow attack, and several more horses were damaged.
By the time Guaizima rushed over after receiving these two waves of sniper attacks, his momentum had been reduced a lot.
They bent their bows and shot at the Song army, or some people held spears and stabbed at the Song army.
The momentum of the all-out impact is frightening.
The one at the front shot with a curved bow and then quickly turned around, and the ones behind him shot immediately.
The order of the Guaizima charge wave was maintained very well. Even though it had been affected a little before, there was still no big panic.
Arrows rushed in one after another, hitting the Song army's armor and shields, making a clashing sound.
The Song army's formation remained motionless for the time being.
The artillerymen in iron armor had already begun to brave the rain of arrows to prepare for the second wave of shooting.
They wrapped the cloth around a wooden stick, put it in the water, and quickly inserted it into the barrel of the cannon.
The water evaporates at the high temperature of the gun barrel, which also cools the temperature of the gun barrel.
At this time, a considerable number of kidnapping horses were taking a circuitous route, and most of them were less than fifty meters away from the Song army.
At this distance, the order between each other was intertwined during the roundabout. In other words, as long as the Song army did not tilt the artillery to the horizon at this time, it could hit it with just a random shot in that direction.
"quick!"
The artillerymen moved quickly.
Bang bang bang...
The tiger crouching cannon roared one after another, and the iron cannons charged out again, sweeping towards the group of kidnapper horses.
I saw the iron cannon hitting the flank of a war horse that was preparing to make a roundabout route. The fist-sized cannonball directly penetrated the horse's belly and rushed towards the second war horse with a large amount of blood and something like burnt powder.
The impact hit the leg of a cavalryman and knocked the horse and man to the ground on the spot.
The first horse that was shot through the abdomen let out a cry and fell onto the horse that came up from behind. Its body collapsed unwillingly. The cavalry above chased after it and died on the spot with a muffled groan.
The remaining twenty-odd iron cannons were like a torrent of steel, rushing past with great force.
Under the impact of such a terrifying steel rainstorm, those living flesh and blood bodies were smashed to pieces.
The roundabout group of horses collapsed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The minced meat splashed on his companion's armor, and even his face was still hot.
At this time, at least a dozen horses were killed directly, and the rest were hit by our own people, at least forty.
A large group of winding horses behind were affected.
Some war horses were so frightened that they rushed towards the Song army like crazy.
Of course, the end result of the kidnapper's horse rushing over would be to be pierced by a spear, or have his flesh and blood chopped open on the spot by the heavy infantry's axe.
It was even worse for Muke at the Caspian Sea. He was one of the people who was bombarded by iron cannons and fell off his horse.
He was seriously injured and then trampled to a pulp by the frightened horses behind him.
Chapter completed!